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Subject: [Leica] CANADIAN PHOTOJOURNALIST POEM
From: skalte at icloud.com (Susan Ryan)
Date: Sun, 08 May 2016 19:15:58 -0600
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That is a beautiful poem and tribute. She nailed it. Good on her, and you 
for being the inspiration you are. 

Sue

Sent from my iPhone

> On May 4, 2016, at 5:17 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hi Crew, 
> My niece in the UK is a very fine author/poet in early years and wrote this
> poem about her Uncle Ted as a photojournalist.
> Not bad for a young lady 16 yrs. I'd say.
> cheers,
> Ted Grant. CM
> Dedicated to Canadian photojournalist, Uncle Ted Grant
> <http://tedgrantphoto.com/> 
> "Jesus Christ!
> Would you look at that"
> - then click!
> His voice smoky
> as the wind.
> When he speaks
> he looks to the distance,
> ruddy horizons,
> - blind in one eye
> but the sight sharper.
> At 83,
> he still holds his camera
> gently, but poised
> - ready to pounce,
> a hunter, a gatherer,
> horse at the ready,
> tracking life in its rawest
> - moments unnoticed,
> a flick of the spur!
> An eye into focus.
> Human nature bared,
> unfiltered
> - like a shot of whiskey,
> smooth and rough,
> "Don't think just click!"
> His hands a little shaky now,
> he flicks through his book; his work
> - life mapped out
> trodden tracks,
> sudden sun on worn out paths.
> His eyes
> cool, calm, cantering quick,
> though now, sometimes,
> they well right up,
> memories stirred like desert dust.
> "Don't think too much"
> he'd say, shaking his head,
> "It's just life"
> - a thousand lives
> along the wrinkles of his cheeks.
> and grabbing his stetson
> swinging a camera round his chest,
> he'd ride away into the sun
> like there's nothing to it.
> a silhouette.
> against the horizon of life
> 
> 
> 
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Replies: Reply from steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] CANADIAN PHOTOJOURNALIST POEM)
In reply to: Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] CANADIAN PHOTOJOURNALIST POEM)